'Israel Offered Nukes to SA Apartheid Regime'

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Declassified documents cast new light on Israel's nuclear arsenals, revealing an offer by Tel Aviv to provide South Africa's apartheid regime with nuclear arms.

In an article published on Sunday, UK-based daily The Guardian explained how South African officials asked for nuclear warheads and Tel Aviv promised to sell them to the apartheid regime.

According to the report, in 1975, then South African Defense Minister Pieter Willem Botha held a clandestine meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, who served as Israel's defense minister at the time.

A secret military cooperation agreement was signed at the meeting, during which Botha reportedly requested nuclear weapons and Peres offered three warhead versions for sale.'

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Israel 'Plans to Surround al-Quds Old City'

A Palestinian official has warned that the Israeli regime was planning to encircle the Old City in Jerusalem (al-Quds) with settlements.

Fatah legislator Hatem Abdul-Qader said on Thursday that the plan was oppressive as more than 300 Palestinian houses would be demolished.

The majority of residents in the area are Palestinians and the walled compound in the Old City includes the al-Aqsa Mosque, considered as Islam's third holiest place.'

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Israel Restricts Access to Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israel on Monday curbed travel from the West Bank and access to Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound as Jews began to celebrate Passover holidays amid raised tension with the Palestinians.

Four Israeli rightwing activists were briefly detained when they tried to make their way to the Old City in annexed east Jerusalem with two goats intended for ritual slaughter, police said.

A Passover animal sacrifice near the mosque compound in the Old City would likely have been perceived by Muslims as a challenge to the tense status quo of the site and could have sparked unrest.'

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Israel Warns EU to Tone Down its Criticism

Israel warned the European Union on Thursday to tone down its criticism of the new Israeli government or risk forfeiting the bloc's role as broker in Mideast peace efforts.

The warning came after EU's commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, this week criticized Israel's refusal to endorse a Palestinian state. She said an upgrade in Israeli-EU relations would depend on Israel's commitment to the "two-state solution."

It also came ahead of a planned trip to Europe next week by Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman - his first official trip abroad. The ultranationalist Lieberman's comments about Arabs and Mideast peace have raised international concerns about the new Israeli Cabinet's intentions.

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Palestinians in Jerusalem Get Eviction Notices

Palestinian families in east Jerusalem were this week served with eviction notices, despite the fact that the eastern half of the city is meant to constitute the capital of a future Palestinian state. The evictions are illegal, according to international law.

Israeli Troops Shut Down Press Conference With Injured American's Parents; Beat Activists

A woman and journalist were among those beaten by Israeli troops during a press conference held by the parents of critically wounded American peace activist Tristan Anderson Monday afternoon.

Anderson had an Israeli tear-gas canister shot at his head in Ni’lin on 13 March, his skull shattered and several surgeries have left him semi-conscious in a Tel Aviv hospital.

His parents arrived shortly after Tristan was hospitalized.Israeli troops detained 11, including Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and Khaled Zabaka, in addition to three foreign activists.

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Israel Arrests Palestinian Leader

Israeli police have arrested leader of the Palestinian Islamic Movement Sheikh Raed Salah, blaming him for attending an 'illegal' meeting.
On Monday, the police raided the gathering in East Jerusalem [al-Quds]'s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and took Salah and his bodyguard away for interrogation, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported.

The Salah-led offshoot of the movement later said that the capture "was made as part of the process of strengthening (Jewish control) over Jerusalem."

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Israeli Police to Halt Arab Jerusalem Events

Israeli police warned on Friday it would not allow the Palestinians to hold cultural events in east Jerusalem to mark the city's designation as the 2009 "capital of Arab culture."
"Police will deploy reinforcements in Jerusalem tomorrow to prevent any Palestinian attempt to hold official activities," police spokesman Smulik ben Rubi said.

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How much evidence does the world need to start to take action against the Blatently Apartheid and Racist Israeli war criminals!!!

Israel: One Thousand Percent Rise in Jewish Attacks on Arabs

On Saturday, the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens reported the 1000 percent rise in 2008 crime rates compared with 2007, citing the recent Israeli war on Gaza and the Israeli elections in February as a reason, said Israeli website Ynetnews.

"What we are witnessing is a moral collapse, and it's time to shout out against racism," said Jafar Farah, the head of the group adding that "the data is especially worrying in regards to civilian violence."

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Pay 'Apartheid' Between Public and Private Sector Workers Grows By 50%

The pay gap between the public and private sectors has widened dramatically in just four years, official figures show.


State workers now earn an average £62 a week more than their private sector counterparts - a 50 per cent increase in the differential since 2004.


Critics say it is fresh evidence of a developing apartheid between the two groups.
It comes at a time when public sector employment is rising while private workers are losing their jobs at a rate of more than 1,000 a day.


There is also growing anger that many pensions in the private sector are being closed, but taxpayer-funded state pensions remain seemingly untouched by the financial crisis.


In 2004, estimated median public sector earnings - those in the middle range of pay - were £452 a week, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.
Private sector median earnings were £410 a week, £42 less.


The difference remained roughly the same between 1997, when Labour came to power, and 2004. But last year the public sector level was £522, against £460 for private employees.



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United Nations General Assembly President Calls For Boycott Of Israel

The UN General Assembly president sparked Jerusalem's ire after calling for international boycott on Israel.Israel filed a formal complaint with the United Nations on Tuesday over statements made by UN General Assembly President, Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, who called for an international boycott of Israel after accusing it of being an apartheid regime. D'Escoto went on to decry the 'Our Greatest Failure'

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